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It’s another bubble that will burst. The number of companies and entering the content delivery network space is not sustainable, says Dan Rayburn, director of Streaming Media and an authority on the content delivery network business. According to Dan’s reckoning, some $282 million in venture funding has been raised over the past 12 months for […]

Hayden Black is one of a growing group of director/writers/producers in Hollywood who are finding success in original, serialized programming for the Web.  I caught up with Hayden earlier this month. He talks about "Goodnight Burbank" and his latest hit, "Abigail’s X-Rated Teen Diary." Abigail, the 13 year-old lead character suffers from a (fictional) genetic […]

I’m not sure if the entire content delivery industry, gathered in an exhibition hall at the New York Hilton for Streaming Media East this week, has taken notice of a wildfire in the bloggesphere suggesting that the new Adobe’s video player, version 10, will destroy the CDN business. An initial post by Hank "WhyEverythingSucks" Williams, […]

Video search is key to discovery and consumption of video.  Also essential is the organization of metadata.  Pluggd, a Seattle-based start up, does both.  The company provides its enterprise solution to CNET Networks and others. Pluggd CEO Alex Castro says that an organized system for Web video, which he calls (coined?) the Semantic Video Web […]

Veveo, a Boston area start-up has "largely succeeded" in bringing effective video search and feed management to mobile devices, says Business Week’s Stephen Wildstrom in a recent review. The company’s product is called vTap.  It is a downloadable application for mobile devices. Once installed, users can search under various terms.  Feeds under specific search terms […]

We’ll be streaming live interviews from Streaming Media East from Manhattan’s Hilton Hotel from noon to 2 p.m. EDT tomorrow, Tuesday, May 20th. Lots of great interviews with the folks who are driving the online video revolution. You will find the stream right here, going up a few minutes before noon in the East. You […]

Bobby Tulsiani, who covers the online video space for JupiterResearch, says that the networks and film studios can build television brands through an online offering of content.  He explains the importance of finding a balance. We spoke at Digital Hollywood earlier this month. — Andy Plesser

Break.com, the fast growing video site for men 18-34, serves one  10 million videos a day, says Nick Wilson, CTO.  The company, started as BigBoys.com about 10 years ago, the site has recently expanded its reach by organizing a network of guy-oriented sites. According to a recent comScore report, the site has locked into a […]

We expect more details to emerge on Monday about Conde Nast’s $25 million acquisition of technology blog Ars Technica.  News first broke late on Friday afternoon. David Carr at the New York Times dedicates his column tomorrow to the evolution of digital media at Conde Nast. He interviewed Ars Technica co-founder Ken Fisher on why […]

So, we’ve been talking with some clever independent Hollywood Web producers about making money out of Web video by creating entertaining, sponsored content.  Tim Street, producer/director/writer, has developed a hit with his show French Maid TV which gets millions of streams on YouTube and other sites. Having developed the franchise, he is using the "maids" […]

From small online videos content producers such as EQAL and NextNewNetworks, to giant ones like Yahoo!, the marketing messages of sponsors are being "baked" into original productions.  These messages range from product placements to branded characters to stories about a particular product or service. As online video advertising is in its nascent stage, sponsored content […]

BigThink, the site that features original and stylized interviews with thought leaders in business, the arts, public policy and academia, has a syndication deal to publish selected videos on the washingtonpost.com. Here’s a New York Times story about the company’s January launch. Videos of Esther Dyson and Jimmy Wales went live today.  The agreement is […]

Mashable, one of the world’s top 10 most influential blogs, is expanding its events business. Tomorrow in Manhattan, hundreds of Mashables will be partying at Webster Hall for a performance of Grand Master Flash. The tickets are just about sold out, we have learned. If Mashable’s party in San Francisco last month, which was called […]

Click To Play Surely one of the biggest challenges facing publishers seeking to monetize their online video content is how to effectively use ads from a multitude of ad networks.   These ad networks represent the largest pool of online video inventory. The problem is that there are a number of video ad networks which have […]

This just in: CBS and EQAL, the new producer of online video which has been recently funded and opened its Hollywood office last week, have a production and distribution deal.  EQAL is a company founded by Miles Beckett and Greg Goodfried, the producers of lonelygirl15 and KateModern. Seems the deal is not just for online […]

Magnify.net, the New York-based start-up which organizes video collections around specific interests on customized Web pages, has new plug-ins that will allow bloggers using Movable Type and WordPress to insert customized video directly into a blog post. Steve Rosenbaum the CEO says that the search and discovery technology of Magnify.net will easily curate relevant videos […]

As publishers seek to maximize the opportunities for video advertising on their sites, some are offering prominent thumbnail images, animated banners and custom video players.  CNET Networks is providing branded video channels with multiple players and companion ads. It has a campaign up for Ford Sync which uses multiple television ads in its proprietary player.  […]

StumbleUpon, the platform that allows users to discover and recommend videos to others has expanded sources of videos curated into the system.  The San Francisco-start-up initially allowed users to "stumble" and collect clips from YouTube.  It expanded in recent months to include Google, MySpace and Metacafe. Today, it added College Humor, Funny or Die, Vimeo, […]

Slide, with 170 million unique vistoris per month, making it the world’s seventh biggest online destination, is not a Web site at all, but a network of third party applications, known as widgets.  These widgets sit on social networks and are shared among members. Its application FunWall is the number one active application on Facebook, […]

LOS ANGELES — Most folks who upload to video sharing sites simply want to share. They want exposure for their clips just for fun or to build a reputation.  Some content creators want to make money and several sites offer monetization.  Although the aggregate amount of money paid out has been modest to date, this […]